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http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/sect-members-charged-with-abusing-children-to-protect-them-1.295860
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100614/wl_ynews/ynews_wl2569
Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/index.htm
Ritual Abuse Conference - August 2010
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

More than 12 million are modern slaves, U.S. says 6/14/10 A sobering
new report from the State Department finds that more than 12 million
people worldwide are victims of "trafficking in persons" - trapped in
forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution. But just 4,166
people were convicted of trafficking last year, the report says. Even
so, awareness of the reach of modern slavery has made such crimes
easier to report and police, the study says. Ambassador-at-Large Luis
CdeBaca, who heads the State Department's anti-slavery efforts, noted
that 116 countries have adopted anti-trafficking laws since the United
Nations enacted a law against modern slavery 10 years ago. Last year
marked a high-water mark, both in identifying trafficking victims and
in mounting successful prosecutions....But there's still much work
ahead, the report says. The State Department estimates that only 0.4
percent of all modern slavery victims were identified last year. Human
trafficking is a multibillion-dollar business - and will probably grow
so long as global governments fail to crack down on it more
forcefully. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100614/wl_ynews/ynews_wl2569
Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/index.htm

describes abuse
Sect members charged with abusing children to 'protect them' Leader of
the 'Ithaca' who allegedly ordered the children be hit to 'save their
souls' committed suicide in his prison cell days after being arrested.
By Ofra Edelman 6/13/10 Three members of the "Ithaca" cult were
charged with the severe abuse of their children, according to an
indictment submitted to the Peta Tikvah District court on Sunday.
According to the indictment, sect leader, Shay Abramov instructed
members to physically abuse their children, in what he called a
"treatment" against accidents and illnesses, so to save their lives
and prevent their souls from going to hell....The state prosecutor's
office wrote in the indictment that the allegations "uncover a
horrifying tale of abuse during a period of six months, for the
purpose of preventing them from becoming felons and to 'take the evil
out of them," adding that the reported abuse was "severe and
systematic."
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